Napoleon Hill Quotes
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think. Adam Richman
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
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Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.
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The world of technology is the sum total of what people do. Its redemption can only come from changes in what people, individually and collectively, do or refrain from doing. —Ursula M. Franklin
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You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
